For Vitruvius, Roman theorist, the perfect architecture was one that had'' firmness, utility and beauty in a delicate balance.'' With the advent of the Renaissance and the return of the classic postulates, Leon Battista Alberti, Italian humanist multifaceted, came to say that perfect beauty is that to which'' can not add anything and you can not take anything ''. Following this historical thread arrived at the figure of Le Cobusier, which defined the work of the architect as'' the problem of establishing criteria to address the problem of perfection.'' However, the architect Christopher Alexander in his book A pattern Language, states that'' no building is prefect ever. Each of them, when constructed, is an attempt to create a complete configuration to remain single. But predictions are invariably wrong. People use buildings in a different way than it thought.'' These lines we provide a framework to locate Shodan House in Ahmedabad, India's textile center, work is not so well known by the very prestigious in this blog named architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, between 1951 and 1956 to the Secretary General of Spinners Association and Industrial Textile, but his construction would be immediately sold to Mr. Shodan.

Structural simplicity, flexibility in the arrangement of the different rooms and halls, thanks to the absence of partitions that do, in turn, that the natural light to penetrate to their own devices throughout the house, make it a milestone in the history of residential architecture. The structure based on the use of concrete is provided as is, with the roughness of the material itself after the wooden formwork. The free facade energized with the shadow of the brise-soleil, both remind us de l'Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles, concrete sunshield and hanging gardens. The smooth finish and neat, which are more than used, can be found in the interior rooms where ceilings are sheet metal with color contrasting with the grey concrete.

In short, it is a part of the housing villas designed by Le Corbusier to the high parissian class, as the Villa Savoy, where, similarly, found piles, ramps, windows spanning the facade, flat roof gardens open floor plan, front independent of the structure, among others, flagship features of its architecture but we have to move them to a more arid climatology, typical of this region of India.